Motif: Challenge: Plant Blindness

People overlook or ignore plants in daily life and do nott realize their importance.
Achurra, Ainara. “Plant Blindness: A Focus on Its Biological Basis.” Frontiers in Education 7 (October 25, 2022). https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.963448.

People overlook or ignore plants in daily life and do nott realize their importance.
Achurra, Ainara. “Plant Blindness: A Focus on Its Biological Basis.” Frontiers in Education 7 (October 25, 2022). https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.963448.

Warframe – Vallis Undermind Expansion

This entry is still work-in-progress. With the Vallis Undermind expansion, Digital Extremes added a content update to its live-service ‘looter shooter’ game that, while not having an overtly educational or environmental focus, clearly taps into a heightened sensitivity and receptiveness towards human/nature themes in popular culture. Pertinent design choices include:

Grow Wild

Grow Wild is a cozy sandbox style game in which players can discover new plants, find bugs, and watch the world change around them. Players discover the natural phenomena around them and document the different stages of plants and animals throughout the year.

The Educational Value of Virtual Ecologies in Red Dead Redemption 2

This paper is of importance because, it shows that education doesn’t have to be limited to specifically designed ‘serious’ games only. The “big budget” games as the authors call them can also offer opportunities to teach players about subjects like ecology and conservation.

Out and About

In Out and About, the player character visits their grandmother and learns about the real world plants that surround a mountainside town. A natural disaster strikes while they are visiting the grandmother. In the aftermath, players find a lot of fallen trees and hard-to-follow paths and are encouraged to explore and talk to the people

Plant Girl

From the Gamefound page: “Plant Girl Game is a tabletop roleplaying game about a family of plant children working together to prevent ecological disaster in their small town.” The designers describe the player’s role as follows: “You don’t have to be a girl, but you do have to be a plant. Your character’s gender is

The Botanical Revolution: On the Necessity of Art and Gardening

An art exhibition that features an array of modern artistic interpretations of the ecological and shifting cultural importance of the garden. The exhibition seeks to stimulate ecological awareness and tries to educate its visitors on garden practices and views on nature throughout history while emphasizing the Anthropocene.

Petrichor

Petrichor is a strategy board game for 1-4 players. Named after the constructed Greek word describing the earthy smell after rainfall, Petrichor focuses on action selection and area influence mechanics. In Petrichor each player becomes a cloud and aims to let as many crops grow as possible. A player can use for different actions, which

The Elder Scrolls

The Elder Scrolls is primarily a fantasy video game series. The franchise has an active modding community, which is a site for discourse and debate over environmental and ecological issues.

Photosynthesis

Photosynthesis is a green strategy board game, in which players plant and grow their own forest. By suggesting the subjectivity of trees, the game questions human-centered thinking.

Creating an Eco-Identity via Community Gardening Activities

Hoffman, August John, and Stephen Doody. 2015. “Build a Fruit Tree Orchard and They Will Come: Creating an Eco-Identity via Community Gardening Activities.” Community Development Journal 50 (1): 104–20. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsu023. Theories of eco-identity, community development and community service gardening activities were addressed in the current study. The project explored how ecologically based gardening and fruit

From Treetops to Tabletops: A Preliminary Investigation of How Plants Are Represented in Popular Modern Board Games

Friedersdorff, Jessica C. A., Benjamin J. Thomas, Hannah R. Hay, Brodie A. Freeth‐Thomas, and Christopher J. Creevey. 2019. “From Treetops to Tabletops: A Preliminary Investigation of How Plants Are Represented in Popular Modern Board Games.” PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET 1 (3): 290–300. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10057.

Eco

Eco is a digital game that features a rich ecological simulation which generates data based on interactions with plants, animals, climate and players. The data can be analyzed and if interpreted well, the players can defend their planet from ecological harm.